Titanic: Rose's Funniest Line Is A Real Life Historical Inaccuracy

screenrant.com:

Although Titanic is based on a real-life tragedy and various characters are based on real people, it has many historical inaccuracies, including one in one of Rose’s funniest and cleverest lines. Although James Cameron is now mostly associated with the sci-fi genre thanks to movies like The Terminator and the Avatar film series, one of his biggest and most important projects was far from that genre: Titanic, a disaster drama movie released in 1997 and which was the most expensive movie ever made at the time.

Based on the accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Titanic tells the fictional story of Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), two passengers from opposite social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. The story is told from the perspective of old Rose, who shares the struggles of her life back then along with those of falling in love with a man from a completely different world in a time where social status was everything. Throughout Titanic, Rose was shown defying the ideas of her family and those from “first-class” which were rooted in classism and ambition, and she clapped back at some of the biggest names aboard the ship a couple of times.

Related: Titanic True Story: The Real Diamond Rose's Necklace Is Based On

During a meal at the first-class dining room, Rose, her mother Ruth (Frances Fisher), and her fiancé Cal Hockley (Billy Zane) are joined by Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), Thomas Andrews (Victor Garber), and J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), and they are talking about how the ship was designed and made. Molly asks who thought about the name “Titanic”, with Ismay taking credit for it. He then explains that he wanted to convey